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The Irish doesn't look right to me. I don't think I've ever seen leftward displacement of a prepositional phrase without clefting, i.e.:

Is í an uair seo abheidh mé ag vótáil.

Personally, I prefer to use ea and a synthetic future form:

An uair seo is ea a bhead ag vótáil.

This sounds really contrastive to me, as if really emphasising that I didn't vote last time. Maybe that's what they're going for but then the use of natürlich in the German version is really weird, since it implies the exact opposite.

"Richmond is a real scholar; Owen just learns languages because he can't bear not to know what other people are saying."--Margaret Lattimore on her two sons

Adding: Hmong, Livonian, Võro, Votic, Norwegian, alternative for Estonian (valima used in the original means to "to choose, to elect" and hääletama means "to cast a vote, to cast a ballot"; both are valid here.)

linguoboy wrote:The Irish doesn't look right to me. I don't think I've ever seen leftward displacement of a prepositional phrase without clefting, i.e.:

Is í an uair seo abheidh mé ag vótáil.

GnaG actually has a sentence like this: "An chéad Nollaig eile tiocfaidh se aníos. = Nächstes Weihnachten kommt er hinauf." This feels also a lot less contrastive than your modified version. Not sure how common it is with whole phrases, though.

Personally, I prefer to use ea and a synthetic future form:

An uair seo is ea a bhead ag vótáil.

Hm, why the progressive form anyway? If I had had to come up with an Irish sentence, it would have been something like "Vótálfaidh mé an uair seo". But I do notice that I use the progressive form less than other people do, so I'm probably missing something there.

kevin wrote:GnaG actually has a sentence like this: "An chéad Nollaig eile tiocfaidh se aníos. = Nächstes Weihnachten kommt er hinauf." This feels also a lot less contrastive than your modified version. Not sure how common it is with whole phrases, though.

Offhand, I can't remember a single example from any Gaeltacht literature I've read (or even Gaeltacht-adjacent works like An béal bocht).

kevin wrote:Hm, why the progressive form anyway? If I had had to come up with an Irish sentence, it would have been something like "Vótálfaidh mé an uair seo". But I do notice that I use the progressive form less than other people do, so I'm probably missing something there.

For me, I think it's the fact that I'm not really comfortable with verb stems in -áil. They feel very Connemara. This ending is rare in Munster and chiefly found in verbal nouns--and even there speakers often prefer forms without -áil (e.g. feiscint, fágaint to feiceáil, fágáil). So I'm much more comfortable treating them like defective verbs which exist only as verbal nouns (such as the class ending in -aireacht or -adóireacht) and conjugating them in the progressive in all tenses.

"Richmond is a real scholar; Owen just learns languages because he can't bear not to know what other people are saying."--Margaret Lattimore on her two sons